Artist Quote by Joseph Raffael

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place…

— Mark Rothko

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from…

— Robert Motherwell

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want the viewer to be overwhelmed. I want the space to feel like it is caving in on the viewer and that they…

— Rosson Crow

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at,…

— Jim Lee